Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope's 'Little Red Dots.'
Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era when vast swaths of hydrogen and helium gas gathered into the chains of galaxies we see today. Even in the telescope’s first images, astronomers could see a whole…
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- Quanta Magazine Press · quantamagazine.org
- Universe Today Genre press · universetoday.comLittle Red Dots Are The Seeds of Quasars and Supermassive Black Holes
- BBC Sky at Night Magazine Genre press · skyatnightmagazine.comA scientist looked at 'little red dots' in the early Universe and found a black hole that shouldn't existAlso carried by skyatnightmagazine.com
- ScienceDaily Genre press · via Google NewsJWST's mysterious little red dots may be black holes growing at incredible speeds
- qz.com Genre press · via Google NewsNew study links mysterious 'little red dots' to early black hole formation